I love rats. They're my favorite animal. I get really excited whenever I go to New York and see them scampering around. I mean, obviously we have them here too but not as many and it's much rarer to see them.

Also Nyquil isn't that great.

It's at tolerabilityindex.freeforum…. It was created to supplant the Wednesday Tolerability Index threads where people talk about off-topic things on Wednesdays, because new Disqus makes it so hard to hold and read long conversations.

I once tried to take one of me in this same pose but it was too hard to get the angle right. Also difficult to hold four cigarettes in your mouth at once. I think two is the limit.

I agree. The primary benefit of smoking is that it makes you look cool. Also it's really enjoyable. That said I quit smoking in May and I'm very happy to have done so. I miss that I liked it, but I don't actually miss smoking (or having to empty my pockets/avoid smoking before seeing my parents).

I agree - it's much easier for me to read text than images. I also HATE scrolling a long way to have to see the entire page. A little over one equivalent of printed page (as least, fewer than 2) is ideal to scroll. I wouldn't have thought to describe it this way but "different sections being in their own delineated…

WBUR.org has a pretty good design (someone else mentioned it so I know I'm not the only one who thinks that). That's probably my favorite but I also do like the NYT design.

I cannot fucking believe this.

I am a huge snoop and pretty unabashed. As long as the person doesn't find out I think it's no harm no foul. We go through these lives like ships passing through the night in quiet isolation, at least we can secretly know each other better in some small dimension by looking at another person's stuff.

Because M&Ms are gross and therefore the M&M cookie is the inferior cookie?

They delivered about a million to my dorm once in college and we built a throne out of them.

Sure - if you were using "she" to mean that the movie did a shitty job of conveying that Brandon Teena was authentically male, then I guess that makes sense. I really liked the movie and got the opposite impression. I wouldn't have done that though, I would have just said "he."

Me too. Incidentally I wouldn't go there for grad school now though. I'm applying to PhD programs but NOT U of C. I want to go someplace where I don't already know all the drama and dysfunction of the department. Also, what year did you graduate? I know we have talked about this before but I can't remember if we tried…

I was a ballerina, as is traditional. This year I got legwarmers so it was even better. The only thing I didn't like was that people kept thinking I was Flashdance (which I haven't seen). It's not that exciting but it was pretty cute if I do say so myself. I might take a picture when I wear it again tomorrow.

I disagree! I had lots of very quality grad student friends.

I can't find any good bralettes. Kind of a dumb sounding name but you know, the kind where it looks like a real bra and not a training bra or a sports bra, except without underwire. I am constantly looking for them. They sort of have what I want at AA but it's not exactly right and I don't really like shopping there.…

I love the increasingly ridiculous New York Times conditional modifiers. Whoever writes those has a fun job.

Can you explain that a little more? It doesn't make sense to me at all. If you were talking about Hilary Swank, then "she" makes sense. But the character Brandon Teena . . . is the person Brandon Teena, unless you are making an incredibly subtle point about how the film constructs its own perspective of the gender of…

And the same reason I shoot heroin.

I tend to agree with these same sentiments as @avclub-5dc978b30969d0ba612c37bb0543eafb:disqus expressed - not that it's pejorative, I have a hard time quite seeing that, but that it's often used in an obfuscatory or at least not particularly useful way. The thing about it that somewhat bothers me is that, to me,…